(For S.H.) It was a year after the artist was drowned that the loan exhibition of Hugo Blake’s paintings was opened in Philadelphia by Maeve. “Whom the gods love die young,” people said. To remember those paintings is like remembering a dream-life spent with the Ever-living in an Ireland untrodden by men. Except once he …
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"Haunting and the appearance of specters or ghosts is one way [...] we are notified that what's been concealed, is very much alive and present, interfering precisely with those always incomplete forms of containment and repression ceaselessly directed towards us." (Avery Gordon xvi) Many a year ago, before chloroform was thought of, there lived in …
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Ghostly Fictions 
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